Seattle Climate Tech New Year's Edition: Jan 5 - Jan 12

2026: a budding year; here we go! 🌱👍💪

Hi Team Climate,

Here’s to 2025 in the rearview mirror and a BIGGER, better, and greener 2026; there’s certainly room for improvement in the coming year. As you return from breaks and dig in for the work ahead, check out the events we’ve got for you, ranging from analyses of climate risk to a writer’s workshop. And we’ve got plenty more in the weeks ahead.

As always, scroll down for the full list of upcoming events.

Happy New Year! And let’s move forward,

~ Jason and the Seattle Climate Tech Team

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Events This Week

• 🌤️ Lunch and Learn - The Climate Risk Analytics Stack with Eric Collins: Thu, Jan 8

• ✍️ Seattle Climate Writers Community: Thu, Jan 8

• 🏙️ Investigating Solarpunk, Part 4: Small Cities: Thu, Jan 8

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Upcoming Events

• 🧑‍🚒 Community Ready: Practical Prep for Uncertain Times (ft. Seattle Office of Emergency Management): Tues, Jan 13

• 📗 THE NATURE OF OUR TIMES Reading: Wed, Jan 14

• 🌡️ Extreme Heat in the Pacific Northwest: Strategies for Next Summer and Beyond: Thurs, Jan 15

• ⚖️ Lunch and Learn - Climate Legal Ops - the legal foundation every startup needs to grow responsibly: Thu, Jan 15

• 🚀⚡Applying SpaceX-Style Design Thinking to Seattle’s Energy System - Feedback Session: Thu, Jan 15

• 📗 Dr. Thomas Doherty presents ‘Surviving Climate Anxiety’: Thu, Jan 15

• 📗 Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum with Brittney Corrigan — ‘Outer Stars’: Thu, Jan 15

• 🔋From Mine to Megawatt: Advancing Battery Supply Chain Transparency & Reducing Carbon Emissions: Thu, Jan 22

• 🦘 Jumpstart Program with King County: Tues, Jan 27

• ✍️ Seattle Climate Writers Community: Thu, Jan 29

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This Week in Depth

🌤️ Lunch and Learn - The Climate Risk Analytics Stack with Eric Collins

When: Thurs, Jan 8, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Where: 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, 1215 4th Ave 15th Floor, Seattle, WA 98101

​Climate-risk analytics are now influencing how firms plan for resilience, price insurance, assess property exposure, and direct capital. As these tools spread across industries, the market behind them has grown quickly, and so has the confusion about what the data actually represents. This lunch and learn will explain how these analytics are built, who is using them, what data and technologies power them, and why the field remains so contentious.

✍️ Seattle Climate Writers Community: Thu, Jan 8

When: Thurs, Jan 8, 3:00pm-4:30pm
Where: 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, 1215 4th Ave 15th Floor, Seattle, WA 98101

​We’re excited to invite you to our next Climate Writers Community session at 9Zero.

​What to Bring:

• ​Preferred writing tools (notebook, pens, or laptop and charger)

• ​Your own snacks and beverages

​Agenda:

• ​Welcome, intros from co-organizers and participants

• ​Warm-up timed writing + brief reflection

• ​Main timed writing session(s) + reflection

• ​Wrap up

​Our community provides dedicated time and space for writing with supportive peers. Whether you’re working on climate journalism, fiction, policy writing, or personal reflection, you belong here.

🏙️ Investigating Solarpunk, Part 4: Small Cities

When: Thurs, Jan 8, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Where: Seattle Public Library, Central Library, Seattle, WA 98101

Following up on our three previous events, let’s take the next step: envisioning medium-sized institutions and communities.

We’ll investigate coops (e.g. Mondragon) and think about what it takes to live together in groups larger than just our immediate tight-knit community.

Homework / pre-reading is here:

• ​Read Elinor Ostrom’s Design Principles for Successful Commons (this is short)

  • ​And watch this video (or just watch the video if not enough time)

  • ​Extra extra credit: read Governing the Commons

• ​Read this Guardian article (or this New Yorker one) about Mondragon or watch this documentary

• ​Think about your own relationship to local governance structures. How empowered do you feel in your company, apartment building, neighborhood or small city (or prior ones you’ve lived in), etc? How was the quality of the governance / the outcomes - what couldn’t they do?

  • ​What works best at a small scale, vs a larger scale?

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